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Employment-law [2025] JRC 107

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited (Royal Court : Hearing

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited (Royal Court : Hearing (Civil)) [2025] JRC 107 (24 April 2025)

The Royal Court of Jersey allowed the plaintiff to serve a witness statement out of time, finding the delay was explained and the evidence relevant, but excluded hearsay and opinion passages.

  • Admission-of-late-evidence
  • Relief-from-sanctions
  • Duty-of-care
  • Bad-faith-allegations
  • Statutory-and-contractual-duties
  • Hearsay-evidence
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Criminal-law [2025] JRC 021

AG v Anthony (Royal Court : Hearing

AG v Anthony (Royal Court : Hearing (Criminal)) [2025] JRC 021 (21 January 2025)

The Royal Court of Jersey admitted a 999 call and initial body-cam statements as res gestae, but excluded later police-account evidence and bad character evidence.

  • Hearsay
  • Res-gestae
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Propensity
  • Fair-trial
  • Hearsay-evidence
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Criminal-law [2024] JRC 067

AG v Porter

AG v Porter [2024] JRC 067 (25 March 2024)

The court admitted a child witness’s hearsay account after finding, under Article 64 of the Jersey law, that admission was in the interests of justice.

  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Admissibility-of-child-witness-statements
  • Interests-of-justice
  • Police-procedures-and-criminal-evidence-(jersey)-law-2003
  • Child-witnesses
  • Criminal-evidence
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Criminal-law [2024] JRC 042

AG v Canavan

AG v Canavan [2024] JRC 042 (22 February 2024)

Pre-trial directions in a Jersey criminal case on assault and offensive weapon charges. The court dealt with bad character, special measures, expert DNA evidence and hearsay.

  • Assault
  • Possession-of-offensive-weapon
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Special-measures
  • Expert-evidence
  • Hearsay-evidence
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Criminal-law [2023] JRC 125

AG v Withe

AG v Withe [2023] JRC 125 (20 July 2023)

The court ruled on trial procedure, screening, bad character evidence, and hearsay in a criminal assault case, allowing the prior conviction and rejecting the hearsay application.

  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Witness-protection
  • Domestic-violence
  • Trial-procedure
  • Criminal-trial-procedure
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Criminal-law [2023] JRC 111

AG v Withe

AG v Withe [2023] JRC 111 (21 February 2023)

Pre-trial ruling admitting one rebuttal statement and domestic-abuse context evidence, while excluding a second hearsay statement because of contamination risk.

  • Admissibility-of-hearsay
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Domestic-violence
  • Recent-fabrication
  • Explanatory-evidence
  • Hearsay-evidence
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Civil-procedure [2022] JRC 057

Corbin v Doryneck and Anor

Corbin v Doryneck and Anor [2022] JRC 057 (02 March 2022)

The Jersey Royal Court refused to admit a deceased expert’s reports because doing so would breach an order limiting each party to one seamanship expert.

  • Admissibility-of-expert-evidence
  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Limitation-on-expert-witnesses
  • Expert-witness-limits
  • Civil-procedure-jersey
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Criminal-law [2021] JRC 178

AG v Mills

AG v Mills [2021] JRC 178 (21 June 2021)

Pre-trial rulings on hearsay, res gestae, bad character evidence, and the admissibility of three police interviews in a sexual offence prosecution.

  • Sexual-offences
  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Res-gestae
  • Bad-character-evidence
  • Admissibility-of-police-interviews
  • Mental-vulnerability-in-suspects
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Criminal-law [2021] JRC 015

Rodrigues v AG 22-Jan-2021

Rodrigues v AG 22-Jan-2021 [2021] JRC 015 (22 January 2021)

The Royal Court dismissed a criminal appeal against convictions for domestic violence, upholding the magistrate’s admission of the complainant’s hearsay statements.

  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Admissibility-of-witness-statements
  • Domestic-violence
  • Police-procedures-and-criminal-evidence-(jersey)-law-2003
  • Criminal-procedure-(jersey)-law-2018
  • Witness-statements
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Civil-procedure [2020] JRC 106

Trico Limited v Buckingham

Trico Limited v Buckingham [2020] JRC 106 (04 June 2020)

Interlocutory ruling on hearsay cross-examination, video-link evidence, and costs. The court permitted limited cross-examination of Mr Atherton and ordered subpoena costs in the cause.

  • Hearsay-evidence
  • Cross-examination
  • Video-link-testimony
  • Costs-orders
  • Civil-procedure
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